[openbeos] Re: Haiku Radeon Driver: Has anyone had success with an X1950 Pro?
- From: "Euan Kirkhope" <euan.kirkhope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:03:24 +0000
On 27/11/2007, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Finn Bastiansen <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > has anyone had success using the Haiku Radeon driver with an X1950
> > Pro
> > card? I tried to compile the Haiku Radeon driver for R5 but did not
> > succeed
> > so far, so I would like to know before if it's worth another try or
> > if it
> > wouldn't work anyway yet.
>
> It does not yet work with these cards.
>
> > The X1950 is not listed in detect.c in the Radeon directory, however
> > it is
> > listed in trunk/src/preferences/devices/pci.ids and in detect.c it
> > says "
> > this table is gathered from different sources". Does that mean the
> > file is
> > built/updated automatically during compile time, e.g. from the
> > pci.ids file?
> > I suspect, however, that being listed in the pci.ids file is not
> > enough to
> > be supported by the Radeon driver ...
>
> The pci.ids file is available on the net, and has nothing to do with
> the driver support on Haiku; it's just a general list for PCI devices.
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
>
Exactly.
The Radeon driver supports only upto R480. R500 and above will need
to be based of the RadeonHD driver in Xorg sometime when 2D
Acceleration comes along.
Euan
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